This week's highlights include Pulitzer winning writer Tracy Kidder discussing “Home Town,” his 1999 book on Northampton, Mass., at 2 p.m. Sunday at Cary Hall in Lexington, various poetry readings, and writers from UMass-Boston and Emerson College's MFA programs...

Should epigraphs be thought of as part of the text, a sort of pre-modern, post-modern device, like tossing a newspaper clipping into the body narrative? Or are they actually a direct invitation by the author, perhaps saying, “Look here, for from this inspiration came this tale?”

A standing-room only crowd packed the Copper Tavern in Manhattan earlier this week for the first mediabistro.com Book Club. The four featured writers pictured above read excerpts from their books and offered one-on-one advice to aspiring authors in the audience. From left to right, the authors were: An Irreverent Curiosity author David Farely, Cemetery Road author Gar Anthony Haywood, Getting In a...

In February, as part of the New Author Mini Challenge, I hosted the New Author League of Reluctant Adults Mini Challenge and it was a huge success.  So I’m planning another mini-challenge for April.  This time, it’s going to be a little different, so I need your help. Here’s the idea, there are a ton of author collaborative sites out there.  I recently asked what s...

Title: The Difference Engine Author: William Gibson and Bruce Sterling Genre: Science Fiction / Steampunk Publisher: Spectra (US) / Gollancz (UK) Publication Date: 1992 / 1996 (First published: 1990) Paperback: 448 pages / 384 pages The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage’s

Title: Meridian Days Author: Eric Brown Publisher: Pan SF Format: Paperback Pages: 176 Release Date: 13th August 1993 Bob lives on a planet patronized by artists and their friends. Involved in a terrible accident, for which he blames himself, Bob now lives in a semi-reclusive manner. When a concerned neighbour, Abe, drags him to a party he becomes involved with Fire, the daughter of a sculptress a...

Hi all, You may or may not know, but Paul Cornell - noted novellist, Doctor Who writer, comic book author and raconteur - wrote a short story for us, in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Three. Anyway, the story, "One of Our Bastards is Missing," has been getting some attention and scuttlebutt recently, so Paul asked us if we could post it up here for you kids to read. So here it is....

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Gardner McFall, author of new works including an opera libretto for an opera commissioned by Seattle Opera (music by Daron Hagen, story by Stephen Wadsworth), entitled Amelia, and a new book of poems, Russian Tortoise.Her entry begins:I've been reading On Kindness (FSG, 2009) by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor, a very readable, thought-provoking

In thinking about books and the decisions that go into marketing them, I've been wondering why people write and what matters the most to them. I have a question for authors and I want an honest answer. Which is more important to you....getting your book into the hands of the most readers possible or making sure your book finds the right readers? I've been thinking about this because I kn...

Official Michael Sullivan Website Order "Nyphron Rising" HERE Read FBC Review of The Crown Conspiracy Read FBC Review of Avempartha INTRODUCTION: In the space of a short year and a half, Michael Sullivan has moved from a small press debut author that featured in one of my first "Indie Spotlight Reviews" to a "name" in the fantasy field who sold-out his first novel and is getting both critical accl...